(2006-10-24) Dawkins Framing Religion

Richard Dawkins is Framing Tolerance toward Religion as a Culture War between Naturalism and Super Naturalism. The Chamberlain tactic of snuggling up to "sensible" religion, in order to present a united front against ("IntelligentDesign") creationists, is fine if your central concern is the battle for Evolution. That is a valid central concern, and I salute those who press it, such as Eugenie Scott in Evolution Versus Creationism. But if you are concerned with the stupendous scientific question of whether the universe was created by a supernatural intelligence or not, the lines are drawn completely differently. On this larger issue, Fundamentalist-s are united with "moderate" religion on one side, and I find myself on the other... Given the widespread yearning for that great misunderstanding, deliberately to confuse Einsteinian Pantheism with supernatural religion is an act of intellectual high treason.

Dawkins was on the Colbert Report recently.

This seems like a good spot to point to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his WWFSMD T-Shirt.